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The first performance of the play, Beyond the Horizon, is held. this is social
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The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps including the United States, which won four medals
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Native Americans are designated citizens by legislation passed in the U.S. Congress
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming.
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The first flight to the North Pole and back occurs when pilot Floyd Bennett, with Richard Evelyn Byrd as his navigator, guided a three-engine monoplane. They were awarded the Medal of Honor for their achievement.
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The Great Mississippi Flood occurs, affecting over 700,000. It started on April 22 and ended May 5 of 1927
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The attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, commences at 7:55 a.m. when Japanese fighter planes launch a surprise attack on United States soil, destroying the U.S. Pacific Fleet docked at the base.
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The Mt. St. Helens volcano, in Washington State, erupts, killing fifty-seven people and economic devastation to the area with losses near $3 billion. The blast was estimated to have the power five hundred times greater than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
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The inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th president of the United States.
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The World Trade Center is bombed by terrorists when a van parked below the North Tower of the structure explodes. Six people are killed and over one thousand are injured.
